The black tulip / by Bruce Lane.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Lane, Bruce, 1938-

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military assistance, Russian--Afghanistan.

Military assistance, Russian.

Afghanistan--History--Soviet occupation, 1979-1989.

Afghanistan.

Genre:

Documentary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (26 min.)

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : Ethnoscope, 1988.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Black Tulip is what the "Afgantsi" - the Soviet soldiers who fought in Afghanistan - call the plane that carried the bodies back to the Soviet Union. Opening at a Soviet army base in Kabul, the film visits an attack helicopter squadron, a firebase outside Kabul, and a guardpost near Kandahar. Then the film moves to the monument to the war dead of WWII beside the Kremlin wall, to a Moscow cemetery filled with dead from the Afghan war, and finally, to the heartbreak of a mother of one of the dead soldiers. The film was shot in 1987, in collaboration with Novosti Press Agency. In 1988 the completed program aired on PBS and 15 other networks around the world, and was widely distributed in the underground video market in the USSR and East Europe, where it played a very small part in the collapse of the Soviet system.... While the Soviet intervention in the Afghan civil war is now history, The Black Tulip transcends the particular to become a moving meditation on the costs and sorrow of all wars.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed Nov. 3, 2011).

Previously published as DVD.

Recorded Afghanistan Recorded Russia 0000.

OCLC:

773797066